Database Administrator

TAL Apparel Limited; Hong Kong; On-site; HKD 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

5-day working week

Competitive remuneration package

Generous fringe benefits

Excellent on-the-job training and dev

Job summary

TAL Apparel Limited in Hong Kong seeks an experienced DBA to support enterprise databases across regions, ensuring availability, security, and reliability. You will work with Infrastructure, Application, and Security teams to drive digital transformation and maintain operational excellence.

The role covers provisioning, patching, upgrades, migrations, performance tuning, and security management, with strong collaboration and problem-solving on complex incidents.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related engineering field.
• 3–5 years of enterprise database administration experience with SQL Server, Oracle, DB2, MySQL, or PostgreSQL.
• Experience with Windows/Linux and basic scripting for administration and automation.
• Understanding of database security, data protection, and compliance requirements.
• Familiarity with monitoring tools such as Prometheus and Grafana.
• Ability to work under pressure with strong troubleshooting and collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Administer enterprise databases to ensure stable and secure operations.
• Support database lifecycle management including provisioning, patching, upgrades, migrations.
• Monitor and optimize performance with health checks, indexing, and resource tuning.
• Troubleshoot issues and collaborate on incident resolution (L2/L3).
• Maintain backup, recovery, HA/DR solutions and testing.
• Manage database security including access controls, auditing, encryption.
• Maintain data integrity and availability through migration, synchronization, and housekeeping.
• Maintain SOPs and database administration best practices.

Skills

Troubleshooting

Analytical thinking

Collaboration skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science / Information Technology

Tools

Prometheus

Grafana

Azure

AWS

GCP

Job description

The DBA supports the performance, security, and reliability of TAL’s enterprise databases across regions, including Infor M3, manufacturing execution, and warehouse management systems. Under senior team guidance, the role maintains database availability and integrity, resolves operational issues, and supports digital transformation in collaboration with Infrastructure, Application, and Security teams.

Key Accountabilities

Administer enterprise databases, including SQL Server, Oracle, DB2, and MySQL, to ensure stable and secure operations.

Support database lifecycle management, including provisioning, patching, upgrades, migrations, capacity planning, and decommissioning.

Monitor and optimize database performance, including health checks, query tuning, indexing, and resource utilization.

Troubleshoot database issues and collaborate with technical teams on incident resolution, root cause analysis, and L2/L3 support.

Maintain backup, recovery, and HA/DR solutions, including backup validation, restore testing, clustering, and replication.

Manage database security, including access controls, auditing, encryption, and vulnerability remediation.

Maintain data integrity and availability through migration, synchronization, archiving, and housekeeping.

Maintain SOPs, operational standards, and database administration best practices.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related engineering field.

3–5 years of enterprise database administration experience with SQL Server, Oracle, DB2, MySQL, or PostgreSQL.

Working knowledge of performance monitoring, backup and recovery, and HA/DR, preferably in multi-site environments.

Experience with Windows/Linux and basic scripting for administration and automation.

Understanding of database security, data protection, and compliance requirements.

Basic knowledge of Azure, AWS, or GCP, managed database services such as Azure SQL, and DevOps/CI/CD concepts.

Familiarity with monitoring tools such as Prometheus and Grafana, with strong troubleshooting, analytical, and collaboration skills, attention to detail, and the ability to work under pressure.

We offer a 5-day working week, a competitive remuneration package and generous fringe benefits. Excellent on-the-job training and development will also be provided.

Founded in 1947, TAL Apparel manufactures shirts, blouses, polos, outerwear and suits for many most famous apparel brands. As a HK-headquartered MNC, we have multiple factories and a diverse team of more than 20,000.

Known as the INNOFACTURER®, we pioneer new technologies in garment innovation that boast style, comfort, functionality, and big data-driven supply chain solutions which have delivered proven profit benefit to our customers. We comply to, and believe in, sustainability.